Proverbs
7:1-5 My
son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my
commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on
your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are
my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the
forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
You will see them on the
streets of cities both large and small. From sunset till after midnight you can
see then, standing on the corners, clustered at the entrances to bars, slipping
into doorways of cheap hotels. Their dress is usually gaudy and tasteless;
their cosmetics seem to have been applied with a spatula.
Prostitutes earn a living
for themselves and their “managers” by selling their charms to anyone who can
pay the price. There is nothing new about this occupation. They have been
around for thousands of years, and will be here for a thousand more. They feed
on the loneliness, boredom, lust and insecurity of their customers. They live
on the fragility and uncertainty of the male ego. Their services to not seem to
be waning.
They are to be pitied. They
need to be saved from their eternal destiny. The subject reminds us of the
importance for young people to live a chaste life. God has ordained marriage to
one woman and has condemned as sin the actions of the sexually immoral. The
subject should be discussed with young adult children in order to move into the
light the thoughts and intentions that all too often remain in the dark
recesses of their heart.
